Out of the Blue

We often ask ourselves what have we learnt/ gained/benefitted through whatever the incident, circumstance. But sometimes, I think we have to ask "What have we un-learnt?" For one of the girls in my church who recently returned from a mission trip, she recounted that they had to uproot the weeds to make way for new plants on the field. How true that is in our lives, where we have to diligently 'uproot' some bad habits, mindsets that hinder our growth.

It's Worldwide Day of Prayer. I left TP reluctantly, leaving my students whom were doing recruitment to PPH for the all-staff-must-attend prayer meeting. The long, jerky bus ride made me dizzy. And I prayed and asked God to help me even look forward to pray the whole afternoon. Surprisingly it was such a refreshing time. Some US staff who joined us shared prayer requests from North America. We heard about staff and students in Virginia Tech, where the horrendous shooting occured. http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/16/vtech.shooting/index.html We heard from staff in Africa, prayed for ministries in Asia and finally for Singapore. What really uplifted me was seeing how we all were trusting God for more in prayer. The prayer time took me off from the usual routine and challenged my perspective and helped me see what God was doing around the WORLD.

I watched Beauty and the Beast on the bus on my student's laptop. I was 9 when I first saw the show! Really forgot most of the plot, the talking candle holder, clock, the songs, and even how Belle looks! Simply brings back childhood days.. Also reminded me not to judge the book by its cover. How often I see things on the outside only, neglecting its true worth inside..

I visited Aunty today. She looks paler than a few months ago. More swollen, less hair on her head. As she woke from her nap and saw me, she asked the maid to help her turn her body. And we talked. I'm glad at least she is still hopeful. I'm amazed in fact by her optimism. Her eyes are still lively. She praised the maid, appreciated her daughters and talked about her visits to the hospital. I really admire her perserverence. While losing her bodily functions she still hangs on to life, relationships, herself. But not God. Yet. With a wistful smile she told me she doesn't want her daughter to get married yet, she will miss her too much. As I left, I thought I need to do two things on my next visit. Get a Cai Qin CD and learn to pray in Chinese.

With some students, we spent an afternoon packing files for freshmen recruitment in TP! It was a really quick amazingly -stuck 470 stickers on files, put brochures n flyers into them-all in 3hrplus, praise God! It was fun listening to Disney songs all the way while packing ha Hope the students will be blessed by the files and also be inspired to live their lives ID squared! ID 2 : I 'm D ifferent cos of my ID entity in Christ. (Gal 2:20)

After a fruitful mission trip, things just continued to roll on fast with a recruitment drive in RP. This year we are trying out something new. We rented a push cart to sell a consignment of books & CDs + some gifts n cards. Praise God for the opportunity! It's fun selling stuff, talking to people who dropped by the push cart, surveying them.. more importantly it gave us a platform to talk to students and know them better. Through the few days we got to know many freshmen Christians yay! Recently I was asking myself what's my attitude towards ministry. And as I read 1 Thess Chp 1, I felt like this is the attitude I desire to have. "work of faith and labour of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ"v3 Faith, Love, Hope in Christ:) Looking forward to recruitment in TP, though I muz say I'm quite tired. But I know His grace is sufficient for me:)